"I was very surprised," Carme Rissech, a biological anthropologist at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain, told Live ...

The story of the Black Death has always been a mix of science, memory, and myth, but historians now argue that one misread ...

A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...

Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...

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Experts flash-froze the child’s grave to preserve and lift it out of the ground in one piece, according to the release. Photo by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. After discovering ...

The officers seen on video dogpiling on top of Irvo Otieno, a Black man who died during intake at a psychiatric facility, are now free of legal consequences. Let me put it this way: the same ...

Christian monks who withdrew into the wilderness — practiced the strange and beautiful discipline of reminding one another of their mortality: “Brother, remember your death.” This was not meant to be ...

ROME (AP) — Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially collapsed during renovation work in the heart of Italy’s capital, ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival ...